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"In this book my effort has been to set forth the impression of France made on me during the year when I was a lecturer at French universities ... In substantially their present form the eight chapters were given as letures at the Lowell institute, Boston, in November and December, 1906, and four of them have been published in Scribner's magazine during 1907."--Note
The universities.--The structure of society.--The family.--The French temperament.--The relation of literature to life.--The question of religion.--The revolution and its effects.--The republic and democracy
